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The Mana Nutrition plant employs 34 people in a town with a population of 9,000. In one day, those 34 employees make enough RUTF/MANA to feed 1500 starving children.	MANA Nutrition plant, Fitzgerald Georgia.	MANA comes in the form of tasty peanut butter packets. Easy for moms to open, easy for children to eat.
MANA Nutrition can produce as much as 46,000 pounds of MANA per day.	Mark Moore, founder and CEO, explains severe accute malnutrition or "SAM" to the employees of the MANA plant at a company retreat.
Children suffering from SAM have an upper arm circumference less than 4.33 inches as Mark demonstrates on 2 fingers.		MANA is distributed in partnership with organizations like USAID and unicef to areas such as Kenya, Sudan, Rwanda, Chad, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Burundi, North Korea and Guatemala.
		Employees of the MANA Nutrition plant feel joy about the impact they have had on the lives of over one million children.
Mark Moore, founder and CEO of MANA Nutrition sits beside two tanks that provide nutrients for RUTF.	Each tank of peanut butter saves the lives of 2,124 children.	Peanuts are one of Georgia's largest crop. MANA Nutrition partners with local peanut farms to obtain the peanuts used in MANA's RUTF.
Peanut fields span across Georgia's landscape.

Deep in Georgia, 3 hours south of Atlanta is a small town called Fitzgerald. 34 people work at a plant that makes a single product: MANA. MANA – “Mother Administered Nutritive Aid” – is a ready-to-use therapeutic food, what aid workers refer to as “RUTF or ready-to-use therapeutic food. It’s a kind of fortified peanut paste that’s been carefully formulated to provide all of a child’s basic nutritional needs, and it’s served in a packet that is easy for a mother to open, easy for a child to eat, and as tasty as peanut butter. Just three servings of MANA a day can save the life of a starving child.

Since Mana Nutritions beginning in 2009, MANA has saved over 1 million lives of children in areas like Kenya, Sudan, Rwanda, Chad, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Burundi, North Korea and Guatemala. All thanks to this small packet of peanut butter, created by 34 people in a small Georgian town.

The Mana Nutrition plant employs 34 people in a town with a population of 9,000. In one day, those 34 employees make enough RUTF/MANA to feed 1500 starving children.

MANA Nutrition plant, Fitzgerald Georgia.

MANA comes in the form of tasty peanut butter packets. Easy for moms to open, easy for children to eat.

MANA Nutrition can produce as much as 46,000 pounds of MANA per day.

Mark Moore, founder and CEO, explains severe accute malnutrition or "SAM" to the employees of the MANA plant at a company retreat.

Children suffering from SAM have an upper arm circumference less than 4.33 inches as Mark demonstrates on 2 fingers.

MANA is distributed in partnership with organizations like USAID and unicef to areas such as Kenya, Sudan, Rwanda, Chad, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Burundi, North Korea and Guatemala.

Employees of the MANA Nutrition plant feel joy about the impact they have had on the lives of over one million children.

Mark Moore, founder and CEO of MANA Nutrition sits beside two tanks that provide nutrients for RUTF.

Each tank of peanut butter saves the lives of 2,124 children.

Peanuts are one of Georgia's largest crop. MANA Nutrition partners with local peanut farms to obtain the peanuts used in MANA's RUTF.

Peanut fields span across Georgia's landscape.